by Sofia Elizarraras | Oct 22, 2020 | Camouflage
Humans have negatively impacted the world’s oceans for centuries, which becomes startlingly evident when studying marine life forms. You have probably seen this already in the form of sad sea turtle photos with plastic soda rings around their neck, or maybe seals...
by Eras Yager | Oct 22, 2020 | Learning
Non-social red-footed tortoises are able to use social cues to solve a task that they would otherwise be unable to solve through individual learning. This supports the hypothesis that the ability of an organism to learn socially is linked to the organism’s general...
by Spencer Hirsch | Oct 22, 2020 | Aggression, Social behavior
It is no secret that wasps are aggressive insects. But, in a recently unveiled secret, scientists discovered that a specific species of wasp, paper wasps, are fully capable of carefully calculating that very same aggression towards direct rivals. In their June 2020...
by Abby Navin | Oct 22, 2020 | Social behavior
Despite their meek and subtle attitude, land tortoises are making us question the established belief of why animals at birth evolved to gravitate towards ‘faces.’ You may not remember being a baby, but your parents remember how often you’d touch their face, it’s...
by Katya Naphtali | Oct 22, 2020 | Aggression
In the quiet of the night, penny-sized frogs track each other’s calls to size each other up and potentially tussle. As they close in on one another, they prime themselves, their rivals, and even bystander frogs both physiologically and behaviorally for the...
